Sold! One daughter for one iPhone
This has got to beat everything... a Chinese couple is facing criminal charges after
selling their daughter for an iPhone.
Look, as just about every parent knows, you don't always necessarily like your kids (sometimes you wonder why you even bothered to have the ungrateful little buggers), but you always love them - and selling off your daughter and then using part of the proceeds to buy an iPhone is just plain wrong - in anyone's language, in anyone's culture.
It's that fracking subject again... two new proposed laws
have been published regarding the environmental regulation of fracking. This seems to indicate that fracking might start sooner rather than later.
It's time to hide that moustache trimmer and get with the
Movember flow... Movember 2013 has been launched and it's your chance to help 'Change the Face of Men's Health'.
On the ICT front,
Internet Solutions is celebrating 20 years, and is predicting exponential growth for the internet in South Africa and Africa, and it's time to
enter the Ericsson Application Awards 2014. Students and small- and medium-sized enterprises from anywhere in the world are invited to submit Android and iOS apps.
Rod Baker, Content Director
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 | Flight FN0201, the inaugural flight of fastjet's first international route, arrived at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport from Dar es Salaam's Julius Nyerere International Airport at 11:45 on Friday, 18 October 2013. Read more >>
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 | The annual general meeting of the Cape Town Tourism membership was hosted by Tsogo Sun at the Cape Sun hotel in the CBD recently. The Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille, headlined the evening's addresses, which were threaded together by the MC, Katlego Maboe. Read more >>
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 | In a bid to fast track tourism as an economic growth imperative on the city's agenda and forge closer working relationships with the private sector to achieve its objectives, the City of Johannesburg's Department of Economic Development (DED) launched the Johannesburg Business Forum (JBF) to tourism stakeholders, partners and peers at a recent breakfast presentation in Newtown. Read more >>
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 | Phakamisa Ndzamela JSE-listed Zurich Insurance Company SA said it had bought 100% of BnB Sure‚ for an undisclosed amount‚ in a deal that will enable the insurer to offer niche insurance to bed and breakfast businesses. Read more >>
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 | Arguably the country's favourite chicken restaurant chain, KFC has been serving local customers with its secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices for more than 40 years. Read more >>
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 | Brian Berkman Being dyslexic can have unintended consequences. Sometimes, even as I type, I use a 'b' instead of a 'd' and transposing numbers happens, especially when I'm not paying careful attention, all too often. Read more >>
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 | The alliance between Massinga Beach and Castelo do Mar along with further developments by co-owner Darin D'Oliveira, will soon open up and boost Inhambane in Mozambique as a destination of choice, benefitting other lodges in the area. Read more >>
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 | Chris Bathembu South Africa has acknowledged the importance of Poland not only as a trading partner in Europe but as a crucial market for South Africa's tourism industry. Read more >>
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 | A. Field If one is going to cheat death and live forever, it might as well be in Tuscany, says luxury traveller A Field. Read more >>
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